Meredith Attwell Baker, FCC Commissioner, Joins NBCUniversal 4 Months After Approving Merger

The Wrap:

Only in Washington!

A mere four months after voting in favor of Comcast's controversial $13.75 billion purchase of NBC-Universal, Meredith Attwell Baker, the Republican commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission, has decided to step down to take a top government affairs job at Comcast.

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Comments

[jeffrey678]

10:22 AM on 05/20/2011

Our political leaders, our Supreme Court, our captains of industry and finance, are so out of touch it's going to be a long, long time before ordinary working people see any relief. All of our institutions, political, economic, even religious, social, and cultural, all of them, are failing the people miserably in pursuit of the Almighty Buck. The cunning game of appointing young ideologues to the bench has paid off handsomely for the corporate power structure. Someone should tell those people running around in tri-cornered hats and talking about the "founders" that it might be wise to save an ounce of their collective wrath for the Republicans who have appointed five Justices who are trampling on individual freedoms in service of corporations.

[timetocookdinner]

09:58 PM on 05/17/2011

IRS audit for this woman please.......this IS like living in the third world, where corruption is public.

[susang]

03:25 PM on 05/12/2011

She vigorously opposed any efforts to impose restrictions on the deal, noting the marriage would "bring exciting benefits to consumers that outweigh potential harms."

Well, she is certainly reaping some exciting benefits. Consumers...not so much.

[cslib]

02:16 PM on 05/12/2011

I give up.

[llm228]

10:39 AM on 05/12/2011

This was VERY CLEVER !
Yet there is NO LAW against it... SHOULD BE, but there isn't.
So much for a 'non-compete clause'...

[alguien]

05:06 PM on 05/13/2011

if i were running things, the whole deal between NBC & comcast would be considered null & void.

and no, you can't get your money back either.

[1000daysoframen]

10:07 AM on 05/12/2011

no surprise here.

[truthserum808]

03:00 AM on 05/12/2011

This is third world level corruption. You know its bad when they're not even trying to hide it any more.

[rosiebond007]

02:08 AM on 05/12/2011

Isn't it time to bring people into these positions who have good sound experience and are not politically motivated (or downright greedy).

I know ........hard to find such a person !

[rosiebond007]

01:59 AM on 05/12/2011

At what point in the negotiations was Meridith offered a job?

Sounds way too suspicious and underhand.

These people are borderline crooks.

[layman]

01:59 AM on 05/12/2011

She advertised: I can be bought at the right price; I will screw the people who pay my salary for you.

[mxytsplyk]

01:55 AM on 05/12/2011

Thus the door revolveth..

Really, this kind of activity should trigger an immediate IRS audit. And not just the gentle ʻ5-grand once-thruʻ, but the full on ʻYouʻll be lucky if you ever climb out of the hole weʻre going to throw you downʻ audit.

[OldTulsan]

01:34 AM on 05/12/2011

Sounds like Liz Fowler, who wrote the Health Care Reform Act...

http://fdlaction.firedoglake.com/2010/03/29/baucus-thanks-wellpoint-vp-liz-fowler-for-writing-health-care-bill/
Baucus Thanks Wellpoint VP Liz Fowler for Writing Health Care Bill | FDL Action

"...I wish to single out one person, and that one person is sitting next to me. Her name is Liz Fowler. Liz Fowler is my chief health counsel. Liz Fowler has put my health care team together. Liz Fowler worked for me many years ago, left for the private sector, and then came back when she realized she could be there at the creation of health care reform because she wanted that to be, in a certain sense, her profession lifetime goal. She put together the White Paper last November–2008–the 87-page document which became the basis, the foundation, the blueprint from which almost all health care measures in all bills on both sides of the aisle came. She is an amazing person. She is a lawyer; she is a Ph.D. She is just so decent. She is always smiling, she is always working, always available to help any Senator, any staff. I thank Liz from the bottom of my heart. In many ways, she typifies, she represents all of the people who have worked so hard to make this bill such a great accomplishment..."

[BadHaBritt]

01:28 AM on 05/12/2011

They do it so blatantly because they know they can do what ever they want and we just have to bend over and take it. It really is time for a major change to our banana republic.

[mashtoe]

01:23 AM on 05/12/2011

Corporate communism.

[wilywolf]

01:15 AM on 05/12/2011

Another Republican politician in bed with the pimp she serves, what a shocker. And do these "public servants" really think people look at them with anything other than utter contempt. Nice "democracy"..